Posts by Rob Foster 1

10Mbps for world+dog, hoots UK.gov, and here is how we're doing it

nice man Jeremy

So... Try asking someone old enough (who isn't called Jeremy) how efficient the nationalised industries were in the 1970s before they were privatised. And when they've finished laughing they might tell you.

Funnily enough, no, IT admins who trash biz machines can't claim they had permission

Yup, I've always thought of it as...

While I have the physical permissions to break stuff, the actual authorisation is only to try & fix it if/when broken.

This seems to be the bit he missed.

Euro Patent Office commanded to reinstate 'Nazi judge' it attacked

Can I just highlight the consistent miss-spelling of Labour in the article. No spell checker?

Nokia 8: As pure as the driven Android - it's a classy return

Re: Sounds nice

I think they call "Bokeh effect" depth of field on proper cameras.

Investigatory Powers Act: You're not being paranoid. UK.gov really is watching you

Re: Yawn

I believe it is you who is the Troll or the Wanker. You may not like surveillance but it was a valid point.

Guilty: NSA bloke who took home exploits at the heart of Kaspersky antivirus slurp row

I use Kaspersky Antivirus, have done for years. And I would hope that it did exactly what it did here, detect malware. The fact that in this case it was NSA malware is a problem for the fool who took it home & put it on his personal computer.

India plans space telescope launch in second half of 2015

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Can someone remind me again why the UK is sending millions in aid to India?

How many digital commissioners does it take to change a lightbulb? 13!

13 comissioners

That'll be 1 to hold the bulb still and 12 to turn the room around then.

Big Java security fixes on the way – but not so fast, Windows XP users

Java Updates ?

I am firmly of the opinion that the only reason that Java is ever updated is to provide me with yet another "opportunity" to install the Ask Tool Bar.

'Sterile neutrinos' re-ignite 'we found dark-stuff' debate

Re: Why's our universe so messy?

Rather reminds me of the film The Thirteenth Floor.

Apple files 'Shake to Print' iOS patent application

Prior Art

I claim Prior Art on this one. Anyone remember Etch-A Sketch. Shake to Erase :)

Apple to Oz court: ‘Our products are lame, really’

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On the other hand, these many lawsuits that Apple are pursuing are pointing out to potential customers that there are real alternatives to the iPad.

Otherwise they wouldn't be suing there asses would they?

Manchester ID staff suffer isolation as new dawn fades

Send it Back

The day one of these things plops through my letterbox will be the day I post it off to Number 10 (recorded delivery of course) with a polite note explaining that I didn't request one.. I would suggest that if everyone who objects did this, Downing Street would soon disappear under a mountain of plastic. Then maybe they'd get the message.

Europe's ISPs object to secret copyright treaty talks

Lisbon Treaty?

I would draw our secretive Overlords attention to section 8A para 3 of their new Lisbon Treaty.

Quote:- "Decisions shall be taken as openly and as closely as possible to the citizen."

So I read that as meaning anything decided secretly cannot be enforced without defying the terms of the Treaty. It would at least give ground for a challenge in the courts I would imagine.

Any thoughts?

Privacy watchdog bashes UK.gov net snoop plan

Can someone tell me why...

Why isn't this collection of everyones data a directe contravention of section 8 of the European concention on Human rights?

"Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence".

Snooping on everything I do shows no "respect" whatsoever for my private and family life or my correspondence.